Since millennials first started entering the workforce, their spending habits have been blamed for killing off industries ranging from casual restaurant dining to starter houses. However, a new study by the Federal Reserve suggests it might be less about how they are spending their money and more about not having any to spend.
A study published this month by Christopher Kurz, Geng Li and Daniel J. Vine found millennials are less financially well-off than members of earlier generations when they were the same ages, with “lower earnings, fewer assets and less wealth.”
Their finances were compared with Generation X, baby boomers, the silent generation and the greatest generation.
The researchers examined spending, income, debt, net worth and demographic factors among the generations to determine “it primarily is the differences in average age and then differences in average income that explain a large and important portion of the consumption wedge between millennials and other cohorts.”
For five years, Beck Dorey-Stein was Barack Obama’s “professional stalker,” she says. “His creeper.”
As a former White House stenographer — a job she found on Craigslist of all places — Dorey-Stein was part of a team responsible for going anywhere the president would go, recording his every public utterance and then transcribing it for posterity.
“Especially whenever he spoke with press, he made sure, just like the previous presidents did, that there was a stenographer in the room so that there was no miscommunication or confusion about what exactly was said,” says Dorey-Stein. She writes about the experience in her new memoir, From the Corner of the Oval.
In an interview with Noel King for NPR’s Morning Edition, Dorey-Stein says “everything changed” with the inauguration of President Trump, whose team “didn’t know that stenographers existed.” She recounts how during the transition, it took her boss multiple tries before she was even able to get past a young press wrangler to introduce herself to the incoming West Wing staff.
Things didn’t improve much from there. In a New York Times op-ed published last week, Dorey-Stein writes about how Stephanie Grisham, now the communications director for the first lady, told a colleague that White House stenographers would not be needed often, because “there would be video.”
“This seems like a fair point,” says Dorey-Stein, “unless you really know audio.” The audio that’s taken from media video might change or get trimmed during the editing process, she says. “We see that with music videos, so the idea of it just being like, ‘Oh, of course, we can just have this on video,’ it’s not the same.”
Photo: Saul Loe/AFP/Getty Images Caption: Beck Dorey-Stein, a former White House stenographer, walks with members of the White House press pool from Air Force One upon arrival at Wattay International Airport in Laos on Sept. 7, 2016.
It’s about 7 p.m. on a chilly night, and Sirene Garcia is standing outside an apartment building about an hour’s drive from Rochester, N.Y.
Even though Garcia has had a cold for the past few days, she has her laptop perched on the hood of her car, trying to test out the new telehealth program. Once the program kicks off, Finger Lakes Community Health’s doctors and nurse practitioners will be able to see patients at their homes through video calls.
And there are a lot of patients who could use this: The center serves some 9,000 farm workers in this region near the Canadian border.
But all of that depends tonight on whether or not Garcia, the center’s special programs director, can find a decent Internet connection.
“Can you hear me OK?” Garcia says to her laptop, garbled sound spitting back at her through the speakers. She’s on a video call with one of her colleagues who’s based at one of FLCH’s eight locations.
The Finger Lakes region, well-known for its rolling farmland and vineyards, is also home to a diverse and sizable refugee and immigrant population.
Most of the challenges that plague FLCH revolve around place, and the issue of spotty cell and Internet service is no different. The rural communities FLCH serve include Mennonites, refugees from Burma and immigrants from China, Saudi Arabia, Haiti and Mexico. Yet being in rural places means potential patients may often be isolated, low-income and not have easy access to transportation — and therefore difficult to serve.
Mary Zelazny, the health center’s CEO, says they’ve come up with a variety of approaches to trying to crack the location puzzle, including providing transportation to patients, and providing “in-camp” services, where doctors or nurse practitioners visit patients’ homes, often accompanied by translators or community outreach workers.
Including the farm workers, the organization serves about 27,000 patients overall.
My philosophy of having a resume that is less text-dense than a traditional one is based on the research that at first glance, a resume-reviewer will spend only six seconds looking over your resume. That means they give your resume a quick glance like we do when we are grading assignments for completion and not accuracy.
You should have both a traditional resume (think CV) that lists detailed job history and educational information. That document which contains all of your experiences, accomplishments, and accolades has its place, but when you are going to a job fair where there are going to potentially be thousands of people handing over resumes to potential employers, your resume needs to be quickly scannable and visually appealing (think Elle Wood in Legally Blonde. You’ve seen it. I know you have).
While I advocate for using Canva (or something similar) to, you can make your Word doc appealing. A few things you can do:
Use a sans serif font for headings (e.g., Arial), and a serif font (times new roman) for bullets.
Choose something other than a traditional solid bullet for your lists. Start all bullets with an action verb and use past tense (even for your current job)
Quantify your contributions (e.g. 88% of students met or exceeded learning goals for 2016-2017 school year)
Print on good paper (something with a higher weight than regular copy paper). You don’t have to go out and buy expensive resume letter paper, but something that feels substantial in the hand that isn’t colored card stock.
Another thing to consider is those pesky job application sites where you upload your resume and then they ask you to fill out that same information on the next page. Having decorative items like tables, boxes, and images makes it harder for AI to pull your information from your resume. That’s why a lot of people will suggest using a traditional resume. That said, if you run into that issue, just fill in the information manually.
Look at these templates from Canva. When you hand one of these to a potential employer, think about what it will communicate about your ability to lead creative and engaging lessons for their–your–students.
Reblogging for future use..but also..how do you account for being a stay at home mom for 9 years on a resume? Anyone have any ideas? Please and thank you.
The research says to not include dates when reentering the workforce. Also, use a functional resume format. The functional resume highlights skills and not chronology (drawing attention away from gaps in work experience).
America needs teachers committed to working with children who have the fewest advantages in life. So for a decade the federal government has offered grants — worth up to $4,000 a year — to standout college students who agree to teach subjects like math or science at lower-income schools.
But a new government study obtained by NPR suggests that thousands of teachers had their grants taken away and converted to loans, sometimes for minor errors in paperwork. That’s despite the fact they were meeting the program’s teaching requirements.
“Without any notice, [my grant] was suddenly a loan, and interest was already accruing on it,” says Maggie Webb, who teaches eighthgrade math in Chelsea, Mass. “So, my $4,000 grant was now costing me $5,000.”
Since 2008, the Education Department has offered these so-called TEACH grants to people studying to get a college or master’s degree. The deal is, they get to keep the grant money if they spend four years teaching a high-need subject like math or science in schools that serve low-income families.
If they don’t keep their end of the bargain, the grants convert to loans that need to be paid back. But, the study finds, many teachers believe they kept their end of the bargain but are now being asked to repay that money anyway.
Photos: Kayana Szymczak and Sean Rayford for NPR Caption: The TEACH grant helps teachers-to-be pay for college or a master’s. But many teachers, like Maggie Webb (left) and David West, say when they began teaching, they were forced to pay it back.
Looking for inspiration? Look no further. In this five part series, fifty talented black women from across the globe share their powerful words of wisdom.
Now, as adherents of the great and terrible AP Stylebook — which also eschews the Oxford comma — we must admit the moral of this story flies in the face of everything (or one thing) NPR’s own sentences stand for.
But we offer these stories as a reminder that every punctuation mark deserves a fair hearing, a glimpse into the glories of grammar(,) and a quiet rebellion against the tyranny of copy editors everywhere.*
*Just a joke, NPR copy desk! Please don’t break out the red pen.
So the old, old, old post I had on Beginning of the Year Tips has been circulating again, but unfortunately most of the links were dead. So I went through, updated and removed some links, and added a ton more! Obviously the #education community on Tumblr is a wealth of resources and the best thing you can do is find an online PLN [professional learning network] like Tumblr to ask questions and get involved. Enjoy and reblog!
The Indigenous Film Festival is a celebration and a showcasing platform for Native and Indigenous films, filmmakers and multimedia creators. Held on the Pine Ridge Reservation during the annual Oglala Lakota Nation Powwow, Rodeo and Fair, the festival is an opportunity to foster a deeper connection to heritage, self-determination and strong cultural identity in our community through the power and magic of motion picture arts.
It is our vision to inspire the next generation of young Lakota and Indigenous filmmakers within our Native communities by fostering creative learning opportunities and providing the platform to showcase their films in a safe and supportive place.
This year’s Film Festival showcase provides a unique and innovative opportunity to experience a diverse selection of Native and Indigenous films curated from a local and global pool of Native filmmakers, during the busiest time of the year. The Festival is a free one-day outdoor event, starting just before dusk on Thursday, August 4th, 2016.
The Festival is organized by local Oglala Lakota tribal members and filmmakers.
THE SPOT
The Festival will be outdoors on Main Street in Pine Ridge, South Dakota Next to Subway, across the street from the Tribal building and on your way to the Powwow grounds.
Picturing Children – a
photography book from the National Museum of African American History and
Culture – comes at a particularly poignant time. As the country continues to
mourn the deaths of young African-Americans like 17-year-old Trayvon Martin and
12-year-old Tamir Rice, Picturing
Children attempts to show what it’s been like for African-American children
to grow up over the last century, and even before.
Museum Director Lonnie Bunch spoke to NPR about some of his
favorite images from the book.
Olympic fans, prepare to watch hookers in a scrum who hope not to end up in the sin bin.
The lexicon of rugby, and the men’s game itself, return to Olympic competition after a 92-year absence. The return in Rio also involves a couple of debuts: it’s the first Olympic appearance for women in the sport, and a first for Rugby Sevens. It’s a seven on seven game. Traditional rugby has 13 or 15 a side.
Sevens is a fast, physical and unpredictable game. Rugby organizers hope an Olympic showing will spread the game’s popularity beyond traditional hotbeds like New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and the U.K.
